Teach prepositions, spatial language, and positional words with this Kindergarten and First Grade prepositions unit, featuring flashcards, worksheets, play-based activities, and a PowerPoint. Perfect for building grammar, vocabulary, and early writing skills.
Use the flashcards for targeted small-group or one-to-one instruction, or let students explore prepositions with play-dough and playmats in your Literacy groups. Worksheets can be used for homework, assessment, or distance learning, while the student booklet helps children consolidate and contextualise their understanding. The included PowerPoint is perfect as a warm-up or mini-lesson for literacy, maths, or even early geography sessions.
What’s Included:
- 20 colour prepositions flashcards
- 6-page student booklet
- 3 fill-in-the-blank worksheets
- 7 cut and paste sentence activity sheets
- 4 playmats for hands-on positional learning
- PowerPoint for whole-class teaching
Prepositions Covered:
✔ above
✔ across
✔ against
✔ around
✔ behind
✔ beside
✔ between
✔ down
✔ far from
✔ in front
✔ inside
✔ near
✔ off
✔ on
✔ through
✔ towards
✔ outside
✔ over
✔ under
✔ up
Why Teachers Love This Resource:
✔ Perfect for Kindergarten & First Grade
✔ Combines hands-on + worksheet-based learning
✔ Great for literacy centres, small groups, or whole class
✔ Supports grammar, vocabulary, and sentence development
✔ Easy to differentiate for a range of learners
Teaching Uses
- Literacy centres
- Small group intervention
- Whole-class mini lessons
- Homework or assessment tasks
- Distance learning
What Teachers Say
"Prepositions can be confusing to teach and learn. These are fun worksheets that help students learn and practice in a few different ways. I like that there are sentences that go with the prepositions, as students have a visual model to follow by also seeing it in print."
"This is a great resource that uses many visuals. My students love the pictures in this activity."
Prepositions Activities for Kindergarten First Grade | Spatial Language
File Info
PDF and PowerPoint Zipped 35 pages
ACARA Alignment
FOUNDATION YEAR – Maths
Location and transformation
• Describe position and movement (ACMMG010)
• interpreting the everyday language of location and direction, such as ‘between’, ‘near’, ‘next to’, ‘forward’, ‘toward’.
• following and giving simple directions to guide a friend around an obstacle path and vice versa.
YEAR 1 – Maths
Location and transformation
• give and follow directions to familiar locations
• understanding that people need to give and follow directions to and from a place, and that this involves turns, direction and distance.
• understanding the meaning and importance of words such as ‘clockwise’, ‘anticlockwise’, ‘forward’ and ‘under’ when giving and following directions.
• interpreting and following directions around familiar locations.
YEAR 1 – HASS
•They represent the location of different places and their features on labelled maps and present findings in a range of texts and use everyday language to describe direction and location.
